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Parsed, Plausible, Wrong: Output Format Controls Silent Errors in Small-Model Semantic Parsing
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Small language models produce grammatically valid but semantically wrong parse trees silently. Using natural language output format instead of symbolic notation cuts silent errors by 2.3x.
- Why it matters
- You deploy fine-tuned small parsers for structured tasks like order processing where wrong outputs go undetected downstream without explicit validation.
- Watch out
- The study uses one benchmark (pizza ordering). Results may not generalize to other semantic parsing domains or different model architectures and sizes.
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